Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 80 106
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 +10
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 5 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.27% 0.47% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.75% 2.89% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £414 £390
25th Percentile £425 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +58.37% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £445 £535
90th Percentile - £459 £556
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.77% -

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 173 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.66% 16.26% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 84 162
10th Percentile £163 £180 £153
25th Percentile £191 £225 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £406
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.54% +1.56%
75th Percentile £488 £474 £574
90th Percentile £575 £556 £725
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 14 49
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.27 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.00 £34.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £62.50 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +341.38% -22.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.25 £75.50
England median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -44.37% +64.00% -5.96%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -20 5 £681 +47.24%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (60.00%) Derivative
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat